Word: ophelias
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...Mary's Church, with clean rooms and the best breakfast in town for $11 a guest. Less than ten miles south is Stratford-on-Avon. Will Shakespeare is remembered shabbily in a lot of curio shoppes, but magnificently upheld by the Royal Shakespeare Company. The Stratford Hilton (yes, Ophelia, there is a Stratford Hilton) and the Shakespeare charge about $65 a night for two. However, a room costs an unbelievable $12 at the Strathedon, and $15 at the Falstaff, noted for its robust meals...
...directly beneath a gigantic video screen on which we see projected the face of the play's central character, Joe. Joe is haunted by the voice of a girl who once left him and his anguish increase as he mentally reenacts past relationships with his mother and a discarded Ophelia-both of whom he destroyed through neglect. The camera repeatedly closes in on Joe's face as the girl's taunts become increasingly strident, "You know that penny farthing hell you call your mind...that's where you think this is coming from don't you...behind the eyes...
...have heard of your paintings too, well enough; God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another. ?Hamlet, speaking to Ophelia...
...achieve these and other appearances, the modern woman can select from an array of contouring creams, blushes, enamels, colors and scents that would have staggered Ophelia or even her own mother, who got by with only basic lipstick and powder. A big cosmetics company today produces around 2,500 shades of nail polish, many with matching lipsticks, of course. Plus different perfumes, colognes, toilet waters and other fragrances to be worn at the supermarket, on the tennis court, when running?yes, when running?when dining, when saying goodnight to her Sweet Prince. Plus unnumbered shampoos, moisturizers, eye shadows, lip glosses...
Only one other? Perhaps in Elizabethan times, when cosmetics were just becoming popular. But a 1978 American Ophelia can make herself a different face for each passing mood, each fantasized role, even each time of day. At the office, she can sport the fresh, "natural" look of the career woman, by using a dozen shades and tints, from eye liner to translucent lip gloss, all supposed to make her appear as if she were wearing no makeup at all. Then, in the evening, she can switch to smoky mauve eye shadow and dark red lipstick touched with midnight blue, calculated...